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Atmosphere, ecology and evolution: what drove the Miocene expansion of C(4) grasslands?
1. Grasses using the C(4) photosynthetic pathway dominate today's savanna ecosystems and account for ∼20% of terrestrial carbon fixation. However, this dominant status was reached only recently, during a period of C(4) grassland expansion in the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene (4–8 Myr ago). De...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18784799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01323.x |